ashishsharmaait wrote: Simas wrote: ashishsharmaait wrote: BTW, ultrasound therapy works great for tennis elbow. 1MHz, around 1.5 w/sqcm. could you tell more about that? I had tennis elbow a few years ago. I tried a few elbow exercises, the squeeze ball and the gyroball as recommended by the physio, but still had some lingering pain. I then went in for 12 sessions of ultrasound, 20 mins per session, followed by 15 mins of stretching exercises, and there was noticeable difference after 1 week and after two weeks there was no discomfort.

Before the lockdown I'd go play tennis everyday. I've always been The Tennis Fanatic in my group, haha. Luckily, I've conviced them to join me too lol. Anyway, I think it was a week or two before the first lockdown when I felt a excruciating pain near the elbow joint. I continued playing of course, as a stubborn grown up man as I am and it did me no good. Few days later I still had the so called tennis elbow. But do you think that stopped me from playing?? No way, I kept playing while taking lots of pain relief medicine and hoped for the best. Needless to say, the pain has spread to my forearm and wrist and I finally went to the doctor. He said if I continued playing for as little as one day, I would have needed surgery :) Almost a half of year later and I feel my best, can't wait to be back in the game ;) hmu if you're up for a match with the next Djokovic hahaha

BTW, ultrasound therapy works great for tennis elbow. 1MHz, around 1.5 w/sqcm.

Edited by ashishsharmaait - 01/08/2021 at 1:27am

blahness wrote: Simas wrote: My elbow is getting better and better the longer the lock-down is...  One of the bigger negative factors for my elbow is BH smash. You can't do a smash without extending it forcibly and quickly. With FH smash it's not as bad, but still unconsciously I try not to hit 100% I guess.. I never did a BH or FH smash haha... I can imagine how much stress that would cause... why not just loopkill the ball, it's stable and effective and you can still do quite a bit to the ball.

My elbow is getting better and better the longer the lock-down is... 

blahness wrote: pitigoi wrote: blahness wrote: .........................part of post deleted .................... There are actually a few factors in the technique side of things that they found in tennis: 1) Elbow leading the stroke - this increases the stress on the elbow significantly. Kreanga's technique is starting to look more and more suspect haha... Basically during contact, the blade should in fact be slightly in front of the elbow, not behind. This means that the wrist is in slight extension rather than flexion during the contact. This is something that almost no one talks about in any BH tutorials.  .........................part of post deleted ....................   4) Not relaxing the grip during the followthrough, similar to 3)  .........................part of post deleted .................... My elbow got better and is getting better from 1) and 4). When BH blocking/counter hitting I keep the elbow closer to the body and raise the arm, with less pivot around the elbow. Not as strong/spinny but with my left hand I am counting on the other player generating strength. You misunderstood 1). 1 is all about having the blade in front of the elbow with the wrist being in slight extension (read it up it's a scientific term) during contact, it's got nothing to do with raising elbow or pivoting around the elbow.

Keep your elbow close, raise your arm (forward), and is impossible to lead with the elbow. When your forearms pivots more around your elbow (which gives you better quality), you can go wrong.

pitigoi wrote: blahness wrote: .........................part of post deleted .................... There are actually a few factors in the technique side of things that they found in tennis: 1) Elbow leading the stroke - this increases the stress on the elbow significantly. Kreanga's technique is starting to look more and more suspect haha... Basically during contact, the blade should in fact be slightly in front of the elbow, not behind. This means that the wrist is in slight extension rather than flexion during the contact. This is something that almost no one talks about in any BH tutorials.  .........................part of post deleted ....................   4) Not relaxing the grip during the followthrough, similar to 3)  .........................part of post deleted .................... My elbow got better and is getting better from 1) and 4). When BH blocking/counter hitting I keep the elbow closer to the body and raise the arm, with less pivot around the elbow. Not as strong/spinny but with my left hand I am counting on the other player generating strength.

just break your wrist and wear a cast for 7 weeks. You'll be surprised how much better your elbow feels

blahness wrote: chongqinghotpot wrote: blocking and punching form BH, staying to the table, aggressively, which put a lot of pressure/stress on the elbow. Never a chopper. I can see how wristy punches would require a lot of forceful wrist action especially if the equipment is slow... It would seem as if loops especially if powered more by the body would in fact be much easier on the elbow....

Kontra wrote: I would say it stimulates muscles and makes them stronger. After 2-3 minutes I feel like lower part of hand is kind of tired or as you said burning but that feeling disappears very fast, almost immediately. I've used power ball before corona but not really on daily basis and it seemed to me it does the job.

Kontra wrote: Yes, it does make a difference. There are few instruction videos on youtube how to use it. As I couldn't play during this corona time I decided to put an effort and did warm up/massage/powerball/other exercises/ice on regular basis and I'm happy with overall result. Of course, not playing also helped.

Kontra wrote: I've joined tennis elbow members club last year. I wanted to sort it out straight away. Plan was to try and treat it without stopping with table tennis. That was right decision as there was only tiny bit of pain and I think I managed to prevent more damage. Here's link I've found really helpful, I've invested few £ in flexi bar and power ball (dirty cheap on AliExpress)+ I always keep rubber band in my pockets so I can use it when walking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvNiJvzjBwA Link re. massage; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_70oOs9dkwE&t=2s + ice pack in the evening while watching tv. I can't say I'm fully recovered but I feel much better, I can play without any issues, just need to remember to warm up muscles before game. Hope this helps, good luck to all fellow tennis elbow club members!

wilkinru Pretty amazing I'm up to playing 16-18 hours a week now. [/QUOTE wrote: Lucky guy.  I've got a couple of friends coming to the house, so I'm g

Yes, I have/ had tennis elbow too. It started some 5 years ago when I was playing and from then from time to time I feel it sometimes...

Edited by Simas - 07/06/2020 at 3:59pm

blocking and punching form BH, staying to the table, aggressively, which put a lot of pressure/stress on the elbow. Never a chopper.